The Cambridge companion to American literature of the 1930s / edited by William Solomon.
"This Companion offers a compelling survey of American literature in the 1930s. These thirteen new essays by accomplished scholars in the field provide re-examinations of crucial trends in the decade: the rise of the proletarian novel; the intersection of radical politics and experimental aesthetics...
| Uniform Title: | Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA$ :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Variant Title: |
American literature of the 1930s |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Marxist literary debates in the 1930s / Alan M. Wald
- Aesthetics and politics of the Depression era / Matthew Stratton
- Architects of history : politics and experimentalism in American writing of the 1930s / Catherine Morley
- Radical politics and experimental poetics in the 1930s / Ruth Jennison
- "I plan to send you some pictures" : documenting the 1930s in cold blood / Paula Rabinowithz
- Songs of social significance : theatre of the Depression era / Ilka Saal
- Literature and labor / Laura Hapke
- Transgression and redemption in the 1930s / Thomas J. Ferraro
- The "race radical" : thrust of ethnic proletarian literature in the 1930s / Chris Vials
- African American historical writing in the depression / Nathaniel Mills
- Popular fiction in the 1930s / Jennifer Haytock and William Solomon
- Performance and politics in the 1930s / William Solomon
- Remembering the 1930s in contemporary historical fiction / Caren Irr.